The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-08-18

iios''u ioi Jul. uitkeS me death rate of
Ashevile and Charlotte for June onor.
nous. Asheville Is given as 81 :, in 600.
and Charlotte rs II >, while Durham is
stated to be 1913. Wilmington 40 and
Fayetteville 1913
1.-The Local Preachers Conference
ana annual tabernacle meeting began at
hutheriori College yesterday. The at
tendance is larger than last wear. The
session lasts fifteen days. Rev. K. l.. AL
oernaAy Will deliver a special series of
lectures on the course OF study
80. The officers of the Salvation ARMY
arrested at Wilmington some DAYS sinrr
AS nuisance, for conducting open air
services, We're tried Monday bv Mavor
Fowler. During the trial public sympathy
was with the Salvationisis The ease was;
continued until the next term of the Crimi-
nal Court
The heavy rains have done great
damage to bridges along railroads and TO
crops on the low grounds, the Pittsboro
Record says. On well drained lands crops
are full of promise for an abundant yield,
but in places the corn is suffering from too
much wet, and the cotton is running too
much to stalk to boil well.
-. In Charlotte this year the taxes are
considerably reduced: The al valorem tax
will be 60c on the 800. instead of SOC; "A
reduction of one-third from the tax for
1888. ,he tax of 10 cents for Graded
schools remains as heretofore. The poll
tax is 81 so as against s., 20, Thirty cents
for Graded schools is unchanged
.. Last week at Wilmington a force Of
policemen mad = raid on the Salvation
Army and captured the officer, Capt.
Thomas ltuntOn, and one Of his Iicuton-
ants, Win. Dronklcy. The police had for
blddeu the SalvationiSts to preach on the
streets, but the latter claimed that they
acted under higher law; hence the arrest.
49,. Wilmington's cotton receipts since
September 1st last are 33, 9O1 bales, and
TOR the same period the year previous 1ol,
1876 bales, or 32, ,421 bales i'll ,-lceSS of r..
celptS of 1885 sc. The exports for the
season up to the present time have been
133, 632 bales, while the exports for the same
period last season We're 10l ,GSS bales, or
q, GA bales increase.
-. The North Carolina Horticultural
Society will hold its annual fair at Win
StOn to-day and morrow. Packages OF
domestic fruits intended for exhibition
should be marked to the IN c. II. Society,
Winston, N. C.-For Exhibition" and
such packages will be way billed free, by
direction. Packages containing preserves,
stuffed birds, NC, and other such articles,
Will be charged regular rates.
The new and pretty town of Victoria,
IL buncombe county, is to be supplied
with water, and FURNISHES an idea and
plan for many other places. A copous
flow of water from spring Will be collect
ed IN reservoir and thence pumped by
steam power to a stand pipe to be erected
on the summit of hill on which new
hotel is to be erected. The neighborhood
can thus be supplied at a trihing expense
with pure spring water.
-. Gov. Scales has selected the Favette-
vile Independent Light Infantry organized
in 1894, as the military representative of
the State at the celebration Of the adoption
of the Constitution at Philadelphia, com
mencing on the 18th of September The
State appropriated $500 to defray expenses
The amount will be insufficient to pay ex-
make up the balance. MIR. Henry w
Blount of Wilson, delivers the prizes at
the Company's anniversary celebration on
the 23rd instant.
The Asheville Citizen gives an
account of a most thrilling affair which
happened at Clyde's last week during the
frcshets, resulting in a narrow escape from
drowning of three parties. Mr.. Jno. Myatt,
of Waynesvile, and Misses league and
Roberts, of Haywood, got into boat on
the Pigeon river. The boat got too close
to the dam, and the occupants losing CON
troll of it, the young man and the ladies
were swept over into a whirling pool six
teen feet below, from which they were
rescued only by the most heroic exertions
OF several parties, particularly Mr. Hanna.